As I mentioned over the last few weeks I have been through some training in PRINCE2 project management and change management, provided by a local vendor Project Laneways (a bit of plug they are highly recommended and say I sent you), the end result I am a PRINCE2 Practitioner and certified in the Principles ofContinue reading “Change management approaches”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Need to learn about web 2.0, come to university
If you are in Australia, and interested in learning about Web 2.0 then you should get yourself to Sydney on September 23 and attend the Web 2.0 University being run as a extra session at Web Direction South. The Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp session is being co-hosted by Jeff Kelly & Stephen Collins and isContinue reading “Need to learn about web 2.0, come to university”
Change management and technology implementation
For many years I have felt that change management has been one of the most underrated and overlooked component during technology implementation. (For the IT folks out there I am NOT talking about change control I am taking about the people and organisation aspects.) I have been involved in change management from several perspectives andContinue reading “Change management and technology implementation”
Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?
About 2 hours ago Twitter announced they were stopping their SMS notification service outside of the US, Canada, UK and India as it was costing them too much money. Now I completely understand a business needs to make money and the a free service cannot last forever but the way this change has been implementedContinue reading “Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?”
Local vendor NGA.Net in the news
Over the last few months NGA.Net’s CEO Mike Giuffrida has been in the news a lot, the latest being an interview with Smart Company on the growth of NGA over the last few years. This follows his appearance on SkyNews 2 months ago and host of other appearances in April and March.
Is the IT Sector softening?
I have been interested over the last few weeks to see the varying discussions that Australia is or is not in a recession at the moment. While the jobless figures overall are not too bad at 4.3% for July 2008 (according to the ABS), there are reports of the RBA easing interest rates due toContinue reading “Is the IT Sector softening?”
Recruiting or Branding failure?
I read a article (thanks Plugger) about how the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment need to recruit over 500 firefighters for the coming season. So I clicked on the link to read to full story and read a good story about their recruiting needs. Mr Rash said the love of the bush and theContinue reading “Recruiting or Branding failure?”
Jobs on the go
Over the last couple of weeks I have been pondering the impact of the mobile web on recruitment. As such I have been thinking through several possible use cases but at this stage I have not found the killer app. We have already seen several companies trying to use SMS notifications for job adverts andContinue reading “Jobs on the go”
New job tools
A short post for you all on free recruitment tools: WebDirections have released their very own job board, notch another one up for niche job boards. You can easily send your job ads to Twitter via TwitHire, pity there does not seem to be an API. But they are having a new release in theContinue reading “New job tools”
Job referral survey
At the beginning of last month I ran a short survey to find out how job referrals where being used within Australia. The results are now available for download. So what did the survey say? Well in summary it confirmed several facts. First, referrals are big business with 87% of respondents being referred a jobContinue reading “Job referral survey”
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